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To: Kolokotronis

It looks like a drunken tirade rather than analysis (it is worse in Russian). However, it touches upon ideas that lately people are afraid to touch if they want to continue publishing their thoughts. Such, for example, is the idea that a fundamental revision of the assumptions under neo-colonialism is needed; also a lot more history needs to be examined behind our liberal “institutions”.


18 posted on 09/29/2015 8:13:48 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

A lot more history in general needs to be examined, especially about the Mediterranean world. It’s a complex, very long history not well sited to the idiocy which passes for public/political discussion in the West these days; nothing simple about it. For example, notwithstanding their at least nominal Mohammedanism, the Palestinians and even more so the Syrians, are Hellenistic people. I remember talking with a Palestinian fellow many years ago who remarked to me that his people were the Byzantines left behind when the rest of us lit out as the Arabs and their Mohammedanism showed up.


20 posted on 09/29/2015 8:33:16 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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